I do not know how they were reviewed or presented. I have no real evidence except a NY Times article that became a wiki post about the mission.

What I do know is that there were US Advisors in Yemen leading up to the time the op occurred. I knew we were there because there was a Saudi air
strike last year that killed over 50 people in a wedding and the US was involved. So they had human intel on the ground which is the best you can
have.

The U.S. military now plans to keep a small force of Special Operations advisers in Yemen — deployed in April for a limited, short-term operation
— for the foreseeable future, a step toward reestablishing a counterterrorism mission that was shut down last year by civil war.

These guys would have been instrumental in the planning and intel gathering for an operation like they did. It was a farked mission and it is an easy
blame on Trump. They had aviation issues and had to scrap a plane as well as from what I read were attacked by women also who they thought were to be
friendly. These things happen. They do not end like movies or books. People die. It is a sad thing and the father has every right to be angry but to
just say Trump waved the wand and sent this kid to death is ridiculous.

Hey. How do you feel about Benghazi? What difference, at this point, does it make?

The left does not understand what hypocrisy is...

Its why the fake outrage from then is so sad... They want all these investigations into Trump yet had no desire to have them for Obama, Clinton, Fast
and Furious, the IRS scandal, the Iran nuclear agreement mess, etc etc etc.

Its why Democrats are going to implode and lose even more in the 2018 midterms.

Hey. How do you feel about Benghazi? What difference, at this point, does it make?

Its why Democrats are going to implode and lose even more in the 2018 midterms.

As much as I'd like to see that, it'll do no good to have the Dems splintered into several factions. I have a feeling the noisy minority will take
over, which will cause the Conservative party to reach as far right to counter balance. Plus, the comedy factor and all.

That doesn't mean there weren't soldiers on the ground, we just don't know how many there were. Not to mention that for 6 years Obama dropped around
20,000+ bombs each year in 7 countries. But we don't hear much about that and about the collateral damage do we?... Maybe because the "lame-stream
media" wasn't covering these bombings?

However, the death of any soldier is tragic, in war everything doesn't go as planned, and as a veteran the father of this soldier should know this,
and using the death of his son for political bitterness?

That doesn't mean there weren't soldiers on the ground, we just don't know how many there were. Not to mention that for 6 years Obama dropped around
20,000+ bombs each year in 7 countries. But we don't hear much about that and about the collateral damage do we?... Maybe because the "lame-stream
media" wasn't covering these bombings?

However, the death of any soldier is tragic, in war everything doesn't go as planned, and as a veteran the father of this soldier should know this,
and using the death of his son for political bitterness?

i give the father a pass. when u lose a loved one theres a whole range of emotions u can go through every hour of every day. hes grieving and i hope
he finds his peace.

We elect leaders to make decisions we don't want to make? I think there's more to it than that, but maybe you see it differently

In any case - he is our commander and chief - and one would hope he understood that whether or not things go well, he alone is responsible for making
that decision that nobody else wants to make:

Seventy-two years later, perhaps we should play Taps for the notion that the buck stops on the president’s desk. In an interview with Fox &
Friends Tuesday, President Donald Trump refused to accept responsibility for the risky special operations raid in Yemen earlier this month that
resulted in the death of Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens.

Never mind the fact that Trump personally approved and ordered this flawed raid; never mind the fact that he personally signaled during his campaign
that he wanted to order more aggressive counterterrorism actions like this. When things went bad, it was the fault of the military — not
Trump.

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